Attorney Loses Own Divorce Case When She Failed to Appear at Trial

Tennessee case summary on attorney’s fees in divorce. Gary Lee Odom v. Rachel Lea Zamata Odom The husband and wife in this Davidson County, Tennessee, case had been married seven years when the husband filed for divorce. At the time of trial, the husband was 66 and the wife 33. The husband had paid for […]

Claim For Attorney Fees Survives Dismissal of Complaint

Tennessee case summary on attorney’s fees. Felicitas Hayes v. Christopher Daniel Scoggin The mother and father in this Shelby County, Tennessee, case had four children at the time of their 2013 California divorce. Over the next six years, they were back in court in four states regarding various custody disputes. The father moved to North […]

Wife Gets Alimony After 46 Year Marriage

At August 08, 2019
By Miles Mason
In Alimony: 25+ Years Married, Attorney's Fees
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Tennessee alimony divorce case summary after 46 years married. Cathryn Helrigel Pierce v. Sherman Lane Pierce The husband and wife in this Meigs County, Tennessee, case were married in 1972, and in 2017, the wife filed a complaint for divorce. A few days later, the husband filed his own divorce action, and the two cases […]

Doctor Must Pay $4K/Mo. Alimony to Wife Who Was Stay-At-Home Mom

At August 05, 2019
By Miles Mason
In Alimony: 20-24 Years Married, Attorney's Fees
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Tennessee alimony divorce case summary after 22 years married. Lisa Lyon Williams v. Lane Edward Williams The husband and wife in this Madison County, Tennessee, case were married in 1995, and had one child, who was an adult at the time of their divorce. When the couple met, the wife was a critical-care nurse, and […]

Mom Awarded Fees for Appeal But Not Protective Order

Tennessee case summary on attorney’s fees. David New v. Lavinia Dumitrache et al. In 2008, the mother and father in this case were divorced in Bexar County, Texas. The Texas court’s decree included a permanent parenting plan that had been agreed to by the parties. After the divorce, the mother and child moved to Tennessee, […]

NY Husband Must Pay Wife’s Attorney Fees After Secretly Keeping Her iPad and Text Messages

Tennessee case summary on electronic evidence in divorce. Elizabeth S. Strauss v. Daniel A. Strauss The husband and wife in this New York County, New York, case were in the midst of a divorce when the husband somehow came into possession of the wife’s iPad, which contained the wife’s private text messages. He falsely told […]

Wife Entitled to Attorneys Fees After Contentious Divorce

Tennessee case summary on attorney’s fees in divorce. Audra Snapp Olinger v. Travis Jackson Olinger The wife in this Tennessee case filed for divorce in Bradley County in 2015 on the grounds of adultery and inappropriate marital conduct. After a contentious pretrial phase, the husband ultimately agreed to a stipulation acknowledging that the wife was […]

No Recovery of Attorneys Fees Unless Settlement Terms Provide for Them

Tennessee case summary on attorney’s fees in post-divorce action. Katherine Mae Pruitt v. Travis Pruitt The child in this Henry County, Tennessee, case was born in 2013, and the parents married in 2014. The father, however, was not the child’s biological parent, a fact that was undisputed. But he executed a document to place his […]

$9K / Mo. Alimony in Futuro Owed by Surgeon Overturned

At March 27, 2019
By Miles Mason
In Alimony: 25+ Years Married, Attorney's Fees
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Tennessee alimony divorce case summary after 36 years married. Richard Alan Ellis v. Donica Ann Woods Ellis The husband and wife in this Shelby County, Tennessee, case were married in 1979 and had four children. The husband was a surgeon. The wife had jobs in nursing and teaching early in the marriage, but after the […]

2018 TN Legislative Update: Child Marriage, Grandparent Visitation, Orders of Protection, Plus More

At July 30, 2018
By Miles Mason
In Attorney's Fees, Child Support, Domestic Violence, Family Law, Grandparent Rights, Marriage, News
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Immediately apparent from this 2018 legislative update is how busy the Tennessee Assembly has been with revising family law statutes. A series of Public Chapters were signed into law by Governor Haslam earlier this year. The new legislation impacts child marriage, grandparent visitation, orders of protection, parental responsibility for a child’s health insurance coverage, testimony […]